276
Views
5
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Commentary

Affective priming in the valent/neutral categorisation task is due to affective matching, not encoding facilitation: Reply to Spruyt

&
Pages 570-576 | Received 24 Jul 2013, Accepted 12 Oct 2013, Published online: 15 Nov 2013

REFERENCES

  • Bower, G. H., & Forgas, J. P. (2000). Affect, memory, and social cognition. In E. Eich, J. F. Kihlstrom, G. H. Bower, J. P. Forgas, & P. M. Niedenthal (Eds.), Cognition and Emotion (pp. 87–168). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • De Houwer, J., Hermans, D., Rothermund, K., & Wentura, D. (2002). Affective priming of semantic categorisation responses. Cognition and Emotion, 16, 643–666. doi:10.1080/02699930143000419
  • Eder, A. B., Leuthold, H., Rothermund, K., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2012). Automatic response activation in sequential affective priming: An ERP study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7, 436–445. doi:10.1093/scan/nsr033
  • Fazio, R. H., Sanbonmatsu, D. M., Powell, M. C., & Kardes, F. R. (1986). On the automatic activation of attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 229–238. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.50.2.229
  • Klauer, K. C., & Musch, J. (2001). Does sunshine prime loyal? Affective priming in the naming task. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 54, 727–751.
  • Klauer, K. C., & Musch, J. (2002). Goal-dependent and goal-independent effects of irrelevant evaluations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 802–814. doi:10.1177/0146167202289009
  • Klinger, M. R., Burton, P. C., & Pitts, G. S. (2000). Mechanisms of unconscious priming: I. Response competition, not spreading activation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 441–455. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.26.2.441
  • Neely, J. H., Keefe, D. E., & Ross, K. L. (1989). Semantic priming in the lexical decision task: Roles of prospective prime-generated expectancies and retrospective semantic matching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15, 1003–1019. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.15.6.1003
  • Rothermund, K., & Wentura, D. (1998). Ein fairer Test für die Aktivationsausbreitungshypothese: Untersuchung affektiver Kongruenzeffekte in der Stroop-Aufgabe [An unbiased test of a spreading of activation account of affective priming: Analysis of affective congruency effects in the Stroop task]. Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie, 45, 120–135.
  • Spruyt, A. ( in press). Attention please: Evaluative priming effects in a valent/non-valent categorization task. Reply to Werner and Rothermund (2013). Cognition and Emotion.
  • Spruyt, A., De Houwer, J., Everaert, T., & Hermans, D. (2012). Unconscious semantic activation depends on feature-specific attention allocation. Cognition, 122(1), 91–95. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2011.08.017
  • Spruyt, A., De Houwer, J., & Hermans, D. (2009). Modulation of automatic semantic priming by feature-specific attention allocation. Journal of Memory and Language, 61(1), 37–54. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2009.03.004
  • Spruyt, A., De Houwer, J., Hermans, D., & Eelen, P. (2007). Affective priming of nonaffective semantic categorization responses. Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie), 54(1), 44–53. doi:10.1027/1618-3169.54.1.44
  • Tukey, J. W. (1977). Exploratory data analysis. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
  • Voss, A., Rothermund, K., Gast, A., & Wentura, D. (2013). Cognitive processes in associative and categorical priming: A diffusion model analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 536–559. doi:10.1037/a0029459
  • Wentura, D., & Degner, J. (2010). A practical guide to sequential priming and related tasks. In B. Gawronski & B. K. Payne (Eds.), Handbook of implicit social cognition: Measurement, theory, and applications (pp. 95–116). New York, NY: Guilford.
  • Wentura, D., & Rothermund, K. (2013). Priming is not priming is not priming. Manuscript submitted for publication.
  • Werner, B., & Rothermund, K. (2013). Attention please: No affective priming effects in a valent/neutral-categorization task. Cognition and Emotion, 27(1), 119–132. doi:10.1080/02699931.2012.711744

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.